Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week fellow members of London's aristocratic Carlton Club condoled with Sir William, 64, because he had dislocated a shoulder. Soon, however, many a gouty peer grew mirthful at Sir William's very clubbable account of his dislocation. Said he: "I was undressing slowly, the other night, and reading P. G. Wodehouse's humorous story, Jeeves Carries On. I was so absorbed that I did not look to see what I was doing and consequently did not realize that I was putting both feet into one pajama leg. A moment later I stood up, overbalanced, fell...
...version of the beginning, when "the thing called Sin had not yet been invented," there were gods in the Celestial Halls, and on earth Satyrs, serenely beautiful. These Satyrs were the first and best to cultivate the earth and the arts of music, weaving, medicine, meteorology. In fact they grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their...
When Prince Carol burned his fingers by dipping them too deep into the British pie, he was given notice that he would have to leave the British Isles. The paternal British government reprimanded the bad prince two or three times then finally grew exasperated when the did not reform and notified him that he would have to leave the country by today...
...first vertebrate with a face of typical form." As hands and arms developed and were used for feeding, the need for a reaching, mobile mouth (most antique feature of the face) declined; and at the same time the brain increased in size. Thus man's face grew to take its present form.-Dr. H. H. Briggs of Asheville...
...state funeral, a rare honor that was accorded him. Mrs. Madden took the body for burial to Hinsdale, Ill. So ended the career of an immigrant boy from England who, working in a stone quarry, lost his foot and instead of suing the company rose in it, became president, grew rich, entered politics, stayed honest, gained fame...